Denver woman unravels her family history through art plundered by the Nazis

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Nina McGehee Nazi Repatriated Art
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Lena Schneider, at left, is an art historian and provenance expert who is doing research on the Laemmle family through a grant from the German government. Nina McGehee, seated, is the great granddaughter of Siegfried Laemmle, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 with his family.

Nina McGehee Nazi Repatriated Art
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Nina McGehee Nazi Repatriated Art
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Laemmle family on a bench in Germany
Courtesy of Nina McGehee

Nina McGehee Nazi Repatriated Art
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